This text has some spoilers for The Higher Sister – should you haven’t watched but, possibly go try this and are available again? You’ve been warned!
I would like you to consider me after I say this present could have you hooked throughout the first 5 minutes. It wastes no time attending to the plot (very grateful for this), and the storytelling is so compelling, you’re left wanting extra. No critically, every episode appears to finish on a cliffhanger and you’ll’t assist however surprise what occurs subsequent.
Episode one, titled “That’s My Sister”, introduces the plot of the sequence with Adam’s dying throughout the first jiffy. We then get a flashback to earlier that day: Chloe is an creator and editor-in-chief of {a magazine} known as The Actual Factor. She’s closing out a gathering, earlier than stepping away together with her son, Ethan, to prepare for the night time’s occasion.
Chloe comes off as somebody who cares greater than she ought to about how she’s perceived within the public. The day after the occasion, she spends the morning studying google alerts together with her identify hooked up – studying articles and the feedback that aren’t so form. Whereas at one other occasion hosted by Catherine Lancaster, Chloe is glued to her telephone. The feedback actually get to her, and Adam is nowhere to be discovered. She heads house and that brings us again to the beginning of every part.
When Chloe will get house, she finds Adam’s physique lined in blood. She’s panicked and calls 911 for assist, however Adam was already useless earlier than assist arrived.
“She’s My Sister” – THE BETTER SISTER, Pictured: Jessica Biel as Chloe Taylor, Kim Dickens as Nancy Guidry, Maxwell Acee Donovan as Ethan Macintosh, and Bobby Naderi as Matt Bowen. Picture: Jojo Whilden/ Prime © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
An investigation begins and Chloe is being interrogated by detectives Nancy Guidry and Matt Bowen. She’s telling them every part she will recall from the night time, and I imply every part. There’s some extent the place I used to be like “Chloe, please name a lawyer”. It was once they went to the house and interviewed Ethan with out her current. Ethan is a minor. Due to her lack of sense right here, every part the detectives gathered make them implicate Ethan for the homicide of his personal father.
Paperwork confirmed that Chloe wasn’t Ethan’s organic mom. His mom is Nicole (or Nicky) Macintosh, Adam’s ex-wife. It will get much more insane although, as a result of it seems, Nicky, is Chloe’s older sister. As a result of Ethan is a minor, he must be along with his authorized guardian which is Nicky (on a technicality since Adam and Chloe by no means made that official).
Chloe and Nicky clearly don’t get alongside. Watching them attempt to come collectively for Ethan was fascinating. It was laborious to see Nicky as a accountable guardian due to how they painted her in the beginning, however man are we fooled together with her. Sure, she was an alcoholic and drug addict, however rising up the best way she did, I can’t blame her.
We’ll get to that in a bit, however as of now, she’s nonetheless seen because the troubled one who’s incapable of being there for Ethan when that couldn’t be farther from the reality proper now. Due to Chloe’s lack of expertise with the regulation, her permitting the detectives to speak to Ethan alone led to Ethan being arrested for his father’s homicide.
“Lotta Sky” – THE BETTER SISTER, Pictured: Jessica Biel as Chloe Taylor, Kim Dickens as Nancy Guidry, Maxwell Acee Donovan as Ethan Macintosh, and Bobby Naderi as Matt Bowen. Picture: Jojo Whilden/ Prime © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
So many issues began to return out about Ethan, however the complete time I saved saying to myself I’d be shocked if he was actually the killer. They introduced up a previous incident at his college when he was caught with a gun in his backpack. Tabloids have been writing articles about him, portray him to be an indignant teenager with a historical past of violence.
Jake helped Chloe with discovering a lawyer for Ethan. Michelle Sanders steps in instantly to get to know Ethan and take a look at to determine how you can assist him. I’ll say, it was good on Nicky to name out Chloe for not getting Ethan a lawyer sooner. Detective Guidry and Detective Bowen are going actually laborious to show Ethan did this, however the proof they’d in opposition to him isn’t holding up.
Ethan was denied bail at his listening to which implies he needed to keep locked up whereas ready for trial. Michelle didn’t need any surprises at trial so she asks Chloe how she and Nicky got here to this association the place Ethan would reside together with her and never his mom.
The trial didn’t appear like it was going to go the best way each Chloe and Nicky hoped, however once they took the stand, they launched the truth that Chloe was having an affair with Jake, who additionally labored with Adam. Chloe particulars how abusive Adam was and that Jake had data of this abuse. Jake was additionally known as to testify, and when he took the stand he answered the entire questions the identical, “I refuse to reply on the grounds that it could incriminate me.” She even asks him immediately if he killed Adam and he repeats the identical.
Main mic drop second for Michelle in Ethan’s protection. The jury discovered Ethan not responsible and he was in a position to go house.
“She’s My Sister” – THE BETTER SISTER, Pictured: Kim Dickens as Nancy Guidry and Bobby Naderi as Matt Bowen. Picture: Cara Howe/ Prime © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Episode 4 titled “Gazpacho” is when issues began to get actually fascinating for me. Chloe’s seemingly good life is beginning to crumble as every article is launched. Studying what Nicky has endured throughout her childhood (her father making whiskey scorching goodies, her father almost sexually assaulting her, her father yelling at her greater than Chloe), it’s no shock she turned out the best way she did.
When Nicky confides in her sister saying “I advised you as a result of I’m uninterested in carrying it alone—”, she immediately begins responsible her for every part at present going incorrect in her life. No compassion, no consideration for her emotions, only a downside. It’s very clear that her reminiscence of the occasions have been totally different.
All Nicky wished to do was defend her youthful sister – as they spend extra time collectively, Chloe is beginning to doubt every part she thought she knew about their childhood. After all it was totally different for her as a result of her sister made certain of it. Whilst they’re older Nicky continues to guard her. On the finish of episode seven titled “Again from Purple”, after Chloe learns that Adam lied in regards to the sequence of occasions that led to Ethan residing with them and Nicky being placed on a psych maintain, she begins to interrupt down. Nicky tried to absolve her saying she gave Ethan an opportunity at a considerably higher life than she may have on the time. That each one modified when Ethan confided in her that Adam was abusing Chloe, and he or she took it upon herself to do what she does greatest, defend her sister. That is once we discovered that it was Nicky who killed Adam.
“Simply Ask” – THE BETTER SISTER, Pictured: Jessica Biel as Chloe Taylor and Elizabeth Banks as Nancy Macintosh. Picture: Jojo Whilden/ Prime © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
All through the sequence, I used to be looking for a sister responsible. Part of me was making an attempt to determine who, between Chloe and Nicky, was the higher sister. Verdict: impasse. There are moments after I’m siding with Nicky, however then Chloe reveals a distinct facet to her the place I see how a lot she actually does take care of her sister and redeems herself.
I used to be afraid for Nicky when it seemed like Detective Guidry was going to get her manner, however fortunately all of it labored in Nicky’s favor. She deserves this second probability at life.
I may speak about this present for days, however I’d like to listen to from you! What’d you consider The Higher Sister? Share your ideas beneath.